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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what religion do you do away with all feeling and obtain a type of peace?
(a) Islam.
(b) Karma.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Hindu.

2. If ecstasy were a requirement for a prophet, which prophets of the Old Testament would not have been classified as prophets?
(a) Micah and Jonah.
(b) Moses and Isaiah.
(c) Daniel and Zechariah.
(d) Second Isaiah and Habakkuk.

3. Heschel says the problem is not that we depict God incorrectly but what?
(a) That we can't depict Him.
(b) He does not see depicting God as a problem.
(c) That we don't know how to depict Him.
(d) That we try to depict Him at all.

4. Heschel says that Moses would have taught what kinds of rules of right living to the people?
(a) Unusual rules.
(b) Complex rules.
(c) Bizarre rules.
(d) Simple rules.

5. What does Heschel believe drives a person's desire for ecstasy?
(a) Desire to pray more deeply.
(b) Desire to be connected to gods.
(c) Desire to be different.
(d) Desire to leave the every day world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Heschel uses prophets from what regions or religions that used ecstasy to verify his viewpoint?

2. Heschel looks at the theory of ecstasy but limits it to what?

3. In ancient times, Israel only knew God as what?

4. Jeremiah the prophet said that God delights in what?

5. What does Heschel describe as not a goal, but a challenge, a commitment, a state of tension?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is anthropopathy?

2. Why does Heschel say Karma is opposed to prophetic thinking?

3. What does Heschel describe as the end to indifference?

4. How does Heschel think much of the Bible should be looked at?

5. Describe one theory that Heschel discusses regarding prophets and their revelations from God.

6. How does Heschel describe God?

7. What was Spinoza's idea about the prophets and does Heschel agree?

8. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?

9. Does Heschel say God always been considered a loving and good God?

10. What does Heschel say gives the prophets the courage to speak out?

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